Brief Interview of K.P. Yohannan

What a privilege to have KP come in all the way from India for our 60th wedding anniversary. Thank you so much KP for being here. You and I have been linked for now almost half a century and this is the 50th anniversary of the ship ministry and you were on the ship. I was with you in Indonesia and I just wondered looking back the training you had on the ship, I know you were on OM India as well, was that of any help in this huge ministry that God was going to lead you into? Maybe you know one or two stories or anything. Well, George, the months I spent on Logos, the OM ship, I would say one of the most amazing thing was people from all over the world in one place and the complexity of living with all these different cultures and people and then the biblical teaching or discipleship and following the Lord and I would say this is the first time I was exposed to there's a world out there that is bigger and more needy than my little world and then the leaders that did the teaching and the counseling and all that became very huge and one of the most significant thing, the area of discipline, you know you, I mean for Indians you say 10 o'clock that means 1 o'clock but this was one of those times you realize you you stay with this discipline, some prayer and devotion, I would say the ship had a very significant part to play in my development in those early days. We want to pray for you, India is very much in our heart, people rioting in the streets especially women, it's a different day and your work, I heard there's some 15,000 congregations, I know some of them in other nations and we just really want you to know how much we celebrate what God has done for you, you and your team and hope we can be more faithful in praying but how can we specifically pray for you and the ministry, I think you're flying back to India even tonight but how can we pray for you and the work? George, my request is that we pray that somehow we'll be able to get to some 500,000 religious communities that still wait to hear the first Christmas story and we continue George the journey that you started when I was barely 17 when I committed my life to serve the Lord and for me, believe it or not, coming to meet you I'm not only respect you but I'm scared of you but the thing that I'm able to stand just a few minutes with you it's one of the greatest honor in my life and I thank God for you and Rina and what you have done and by the way I'm just one of the tens of thousands of people who can say the same thing and I want to thank God for you and pray that we will stay faithful in this journey to the end and I think every time I say what I'm supposed to do I think what George will do. Mercy. That has become a major significance and thank you for your praise and you have created tens of thousands of children and they are following in different steps. Thank you and we hope you'll read KP's new book is coming out soon he's a great pusher of my book Messyology. I'm sure if you email us we'll be happy to even send it as a gift. I've just reread Revolution of Missions which initially the first edition I wasn't super happy about but now with my Messyological eyes I've read right through that book and I celebrate what God has done through that book Revolution of Missions. Four million copies. God bless you we hope we hear from you.